<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 3/2/2003 2:45:41 PM Pacific Standard Time, Jon Noble &lt;jon_p_noble@yahoo.com&gt; writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Good idea, we could start this at 1 point for the<BR>
occasional "thou" up to five points for heavily<BR>
formal, deliberately archaic language throughout plus<BR>
Miltonic Inversions, and any other linguistic tricks<BR>
that infest the genre.<BR>
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Do we get to take off points again if characters also say "Okay" and such, or does that make matters worse?<BR>
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I just found an "Okay" in _Beauty_ by Robin McKinley. <BR>
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Helen Schinske</FONT></HTML>